Nov. 1902. Flora of the Island of St. Croix — Millspaugh. 459 



the plant species of these islands and describes the forests of the 

 northwest side of the island. The second division of Paulsen's work 

 contains the anatomy of xerophytic leaves. 



In a floristic appendix six phanerogams new to the Danish 

 islands and Rostrup's fungi and lichens are listed. 



The eleven plates, showing vegetational aspects, are after photo- 

 graphs by Borgesen. 



1895-96. RiCKSECKER, Alfred Edmund, born at West Salem, Illi- 

 nois, U. S. A., on the loth of December, 1869; son of Rev. Jos. 

 J. Ricksecker and the following. Graduated (B. A.) from Ober- 

 lin College in 1894, where later he was Assistant in Botany. 

 From October, 1895, to September, 1896, he resided in St. Croix. 

 In 1900 he was appointed to the chair of Professor of Science in 

 Wilton College, Iowa, which he still holds. 



Coll.: His original St. Croix collection is in the herbarium of 

 the Field Columbian Museum; sets are to be found in the National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. ; Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis; Gray 

 Herbarium, Cambridge; Minn. State University, Minneapolis; Bot. 

 Garden, Edinburgh; Oberlin College, Ohio; and Herb. Krug and 

 Urban, Berlin (386 nos.). 



1896-97. Ricksecker, Mrs. Leonora Agnes, born at Nazareth, 

 Pennsylvania, U. S. A., January 4, 1849. Attended the Moravian 

 parochial schools, graduated at the Young Ladies' Seminary of 

 Bethlehem, Pa. Married the Rev. Jos. J. Ricksecker in 1867. 

 From 1893-97 she lived in St. Croix, where with the assistance 

 of her sons, Frank and Paul, she continued in 1896-97 the col- 

 lections of the above. (A. E. R.) 



Coll. : Original set of plants in the herbarium of the Field Colum- 

 bian Museum, Chicago; other sets in Bot. Garden, Edinburgh; and 

 in Herb. Krug and Urban, Berlin (415 nos.). 



The herbarium of this Museum having come into possession of 

 the original and complete series of plants collected in St. Croix by 

 the last two collectors mentioned above, I have decided to publish 

 the species in connection with those listed by Baron Eggers in his 

 Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands. The Rickseckerian sets 

 contain respectively 750 and 506 sheets of large, representative and 

 neatly prepared specimens, principally with fruits and fruit sections 

 attached. Mr. Ricksecker has furnished me with a map of his col- 

 lecting routes which is here reproduced, and the following letter con- 

 cerning his work upon the island: 



In the summer of 1895, the plan of making a trip 'to St. Croix, 

 D. W. I., for the purpose of collecting botanical specimens presented 

 itself to me, and since my parents were at the time missionaries to 



